Andrew Sullivan has dug up an unbelievable quote about the Kiddie Gulag they found in Iraq. It’s from Scott Ritter in an interview with Time magazine from last year:
“The prison in question was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children – toddlers up to pre-adolescents – whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I’m not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I’m waging peace.”
Parse the morality here: I saw an unspeakably horrible kiddie torture house. I could tell you about it, but that might result in people trying to do something about it. And, since that would not be peaceful, better I keep quiet and help perpetuate a regime which will torture more children. If this doesn’t constitute peace-at-all-costs idiocy, I don’t know what does. But the jerk is right about one thing, if I’d known about a chamber of horrors, I would have used the information to advocate doing something about it.